PhD Studentships in English

University of Hull -Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

To celebrate the University's research successes, the University of Hull is offering 13 full-time UK/EU PhD Scholarship or International Fees Bursaries for candidates applying for the areas within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, including the areas listed below.

Closing date: - 3^rd February 2014.Studentships will start on 29^th September 2014

The English Department can offer supervision in most areas of English Literature from Old Norse to the twenty-first century. It is particularly keen to encourage proposals for scholarships in the following areas which reflect the department’s international research strengths:

• Medieval literature (eg. Old Norse sagas, medieval English Romance and prophecy, medievalism, outlaws)
• Renaissance and early modern literature (eg. trans-cultural Shakespeare; Shakespeare and early modern drama; literature and politics)
• Eighteenth-century literature
• Nineteenth and early twentieth-century writing and culture (eg. the work of Thomas Hardy, Bram Stoker and D.H. Lawrence)
• Modern and Contemporary Writing (especially crime or gothic fiction)
• Creative Writing (especially poetry)

Proposals are also welcomed in the following interdisciplinary topics (to be co-supervised where relevant with staff in Education, Geography and Faculty of Health and Social Care):

• Literature and education (eg. ‘Teaching Shakespeare and the Early Modern: from College to Campus’; Teaching Poetry in the 21^st Century)
• Creative writing and place (eg. Writing the Trade Routes; Writing the Cultural City)
• Literature and place (eg. Reading Cultures of the City: Past and Present)
• Medical Humanities (eg. Reading Illness Narratives)

Please see departmental website for further information about staff research:http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/english.aspx

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In order to qualify for this scholarship you will require a 2.1 in a relevant subject and be studying for a Masters.

Full-time UK/EU PhD Scholarship will include fees at the ‘home/EU' student rate and maintenance (£13,726 in 2013/14) for three years, depending on satisfactory progress.

Full-time International Fee PhD Studentships will include full fees at the International student rate for three years, dependant on satisfactory progress.

PhD students at the University of Hull follow modules for research and transferable skills development and gain a Masters level Certificate, or Diploma, in Research Training, in addition to their research degree.